relationship with the united states and with me. nikki haley said about biden s approach to china, it s unbelievably embarrassing to see the chinese balloon looking at us, and this is a change in the relationship between china and the united states and china feels they are free to send a balloon over the united states and thumb their nose at us. this is really in your face, in the old, back in the day, and that s what the chinese have done and i cannot believe he says well, it s really no harm, no foul. of course it is. they flew over the most sensitive installations and as part of the triad, missile wings, looked at the missile fields, and b-2s, and really, and i think they are just avoiding the obvious, which is look, china is an adversary, better address it that way, not
if the chinese stratospheric balloon spotted floating above a dozen miles above the northern united states is a spy craft as the pentagon claims, it s hard to believe that it was meant to chart its course in secrecy. after all, it s a giant balloon. if anything, it was more likely dispatched precisely for the purpose of being seen. you re agreeing with that. i think that s a real possibility. as we have seen from what the chinese have been saying, they try to tell the world that we re not able to defend ourselves. we can t defend them. and especially in regard to taiwan, but they say it in general. and the chinese are being very blatant about this they were over the air force base in montana, where we have ballistic missiles. they went very near the air force base where we have our b-2s. and this track could take it close to georgia, where we have
taiwan or other, again, other efforts of china to dislodge the united states from being the sole u.s. superpower is going to be significant. we re going to have to they want to see the demise of the united states, they being russia, they being china. certainly, the north koreans and iran and so forth. but we have to, you know, the fact that we are the sole superpower, a superpower, you know, comes with consequences, you know? freedom s not free. and we have to demonstrate this peace and resolve through strength. so that that s what we need to show. and the fact i i think my colleague, general kellogg, talked about perhaps from an operational-tactical standpoint what to do next, you move the reagan carrier battle group, steer that close to taiwan. also you and i talked about this, we ve got a continuous u.s. bomber presence in guam. we can position our bombers, our b-2s, b-1s, b-52s and so
i think, and i m sure that obviously the administration has thought of this, how do we exploit this incident to further improve relations with china, and i think this does give us some leverage toward that end. here s another perspective, just earlier today, gordon chang, who is a senior fellow at the gatestone institute, had this to say on cnn. the chinese are being very blatant about this. they were over at the air force base in montana where we have intercontinental ballistic missiles, they went near the air force base where we have the b-2s which are strategic bombers, and this track could take it very close to king s bay georgia, where we have our bloomers. ballistic missile submarines. that s all three legs of the triad, and so really, this is an in your face operation by the chinese, and it really smacks of the very provocative and blig
they don t have the capacity to produce this stuff themselves. this will cut into their war machine. russian military already struggling, now may be less well supplied than they are at the moment. lastly, tell us about snake island. oh, man. in the course of four days, the russians lost i ll try to do this from memory four they re using the tb-2s. they can post a video of the surveillance, tracking their prey as it were, while slurping soup and eating their lunch and just, boom, taking out tens of millions in russian hardware. they used their own air force to bomb snake island. this is symbolic. this is where at the beginning of the war, you had the famous phrase which i m not allowed to say on family tv. you are not. russian warship, you know what to do with yourself. that russian warship did indeed do with itself when they sank